George Klosko (Henry L. and Un Grace Doherty Professor of Politics

History of Political Theory: An Introduction

Volume II: Modern

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. The second volume traces the origin and development of liberal political theory, and so the foundations for contemporary views.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1010g
• ISBN-13: 9780199695447
• ISBN-10: 019969544X
• Artikelnr.: 36595841

Autorenporträt

George Klosko works in both normative political theory and the history of political thought. His books include Political Obligations (Oxford, 2005) the Second Edition of The Development of Plato's Political Theory (Oxford, 2006). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (2011), which he edited. He is Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Nicolò Machiavelli
2: Thomas Hobbes
3: John Locke and Liberal Political Theory
4: David Hume
5: Montesquieu
6: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
7: Edmund Burke and Conservative Political Theory
8: Utilitarian Liberalism: Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill
9: G. W. F. Hegel
10: Karl Marx
Index